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If you know of a laptop that runs Linux which isn't ChromeOS that can YouTube at 4k60 without its fans ramping up at all or being audible, I'd love to hear it.
by herpderperator 5y ago
If you know of a laptop that runs Linux which isn't ChromeOS that can YouTube at 4k60 without its fans ramping up at all or being audible, I'd love to hear it. My experience has not been such.
- snvzz 5y agothinkpad x395 (2019), the one I am using. I suspect your setup isn't using hw acceleration for video decode.
- 1-6 5y agoCorrect me if I’m wrong but the M1 performs and looks better on paper when doing synthetic benchmarks because they’re heavily optimized for specific tasks with ASICs on the SoC. While commendable to the general public, once a new video codec that’s NOT H264/H265 comes out, it’ll probably rely on general purpose cores and may fall behind dedicated GPUs which have slightly more capability than ASICs for general use. Fortunately, H264/H265 isn’t going anywhere so that MacBook will continue to efficiently process 4K60 videos on little power.
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- TingPing 5y agoFirefox, Chromium, and WebKit all support VAAPI on Linux but often require extra config/flags/packages. Closer to working out of the box though.